Wednesday, July 13

Overnight (2003, Documentary by Tony Montana) Grade: B-
It's not riveting but it's quite entertaining to watch somebody who thinks the world should bow at their feet get what they've always wanted and then be stripped of it all. Troy Duffy sure thinks highly of himself. While being in a band 'The Brood' he writes a script called 'The Boondock Saints' which gets the attention of Harvey Weinstein. Troy is offered one of the biggest deals at the time and makes magazine covers and media news coverage from the deal. Somebody with no experience gets 1 million dollars, is having his favorite bar that he works at bought by Harvey for him, is given full casting license, gets to direct, has a 15 million dollar budget for his movie, his band gets to do the soundtrack and is offered a record deal and he gets final cut of his movie. He's an overnight success. He's the new "it" boy and the celebs gather around to be a part of all the talk in hollywood. However, Troy's you should do as I say attitude shows who really controls Hollywood. Everything begins to crumble around him. I wondered if Quentin Tarantino had the same attitude.


My Architect (2003, Documentary by Nathaniel Kahn) Grade: B+
Nathaniel's father is famous architect Louis Kahn who is known in the architecture world for his amazing designs. However, he doesn't have many buildings. As one architect in the film comments, it's quality not quantity that matters to an artist. Louis Kahn was surely an artist, never wanting to build for financial benefit, but only to create the most amazing works of his time. He wouldn't compromise for anything which cost him many projects. Sadly Luois Kahn died bankrupt and alone in a bathroom in a train station. His body went unidentified for days. This is his son's journey to learn who his father was since he never really got to know him as a child (Louis had three families and only trully lived with one of them). You get to see some amazing works and learn the life of an interesting guy.

2 comments:

Hedwig said...

these on video? they sound really interesting

Cup-O-Noodles said...

Yeah... I rented them (or rather got them on Netflix). They are interesting.